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RF Toolbox™ provides functions, objects, and apps for designing, modeling, analyzing, and visualizing networks of radio frequency (RF) components. The toolbox supports wireless communications, radar, and signal integrity projects.

RF Toolbox lets you build networks of RF components such as filters, transmission lines, matching networks, amplifiers, and mixers. Components can be specified using measurement data such as Touchstone files, network parameters, or physical properties. The toolbox provides functions for analyzing, manipulating, and visualizing RF data. You can analyze S-parameters; convert among S, Y, Z, T, and other network parameters; and visualize RF data using rectangular and polar plots and Smith^® Charts. You can also de-embed, check, and enforce passivity, and compute group and phase delay.

The RF Budget Analyzer app lets you analyze transceiver chains in terms of noise, power, and nonlinearity and generate RF Blockset™ models for circuit envelope simulation. Using the rational function fitting method, you can model backplanes, interconnects, and linear components, and export them as Simulink^® blocks, SPICE netlists, or Verilog^®-A modules for time-domain simulation.

Tutorials

• Superheterodyne Receiver Using RF Budget Analyzer App
  

  This example shows how to build a superheterodyne receiver and analyze the receiver's RF budget for gain, noise figure, and IP3 using the RF Budget Analyzer app.

• Model Cascaded Network
  

  Describes how to build, simulate, and visualize the frequency-domain behavior of an RF network.

• Analyze Transmission Line
  

  Describes how to compute and evaluate the transfer function of a transmission line and export a Verilog-A description.

• Basic Operations with RF Objects
  

  This example shows how to read, analyze, and de-embed RF data from a Touchstone data file.

More About

• RF Analysis
  

  Learn typical RF analysis workflow.

• RF circuit or rfbudget vs. rfckt Objects
  

  Determine when to use RF circuit, rfbudget, and rfckt objects in your RF analysis workflow.

• RF Data Objects
  

  Discover the available RF data objects and learn their uses.

• RF Circuit Objects
  

  Discover the available RF circuit objects and learn their uses.

• RF Model Objects
  

  Discover the available RF model objects and learn their uses.

• RF Network Parameter Objects
  

  Discover the available RF network parameter objects and learn their uses.

Featured Examples

Superheterodyne Receiver Using RF Budget Analyzer App

Build a superheterodyne receiver and analyze the receiver's RF budget for gain, noise figure, and IP3 using the RF Budget Analyzer app. The receiver is a part of a transmitter-receiver system described in the IEEE conference papers, [1] and [2].

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Visualizing RF Budget Analysis over Bandwidth

Programmatically perform an RF budget analysis of an RF receiver system and visualize the computed budget results across the bandwidth of the input signal.

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Bandpass Filter Response

Compute the time-domain response of a simple bandpass filter. The eight steps involved in computing the time-domain response of a simple bandpass filter are,

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